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Louise Brown

It is an honor to be a recipient of the Jewish Foundation
for Education of Women. What makes this
scholarship so special, unique, and experience like no other, is the internship
that is attached. The JFEW Scholars were given the opportunity to work at the Brooklyn Hospital Center.

During the regular school year, there are ten
students assigned to one professor per clinical rotation. But for those ten
weeks, I was individually paired with a nursing preceptor, working from 7AM to
7:30 PM, three days a week. I was her
only student and received that individual attention you can’t get during the
regular school year.
During my ten-week
internship, I received hands on-training on the medical surgical floor which
included client admissions, administration of medications, wound assessment,
ostomy care, suctioning, drawing blood, starting IVs, patient teaching, and
discharge instructions, to name a few.
There is no experience that compares to this other than being an actual
nurse.

This experience has definitely set me apart from
classmates because I have gained valuable hours of experience and the sore feet
to prove it. It allowed me to be placed in an actual work environment and
positioned me for a job opportunity.
Several nurses commented they thought I was already a licensed nurse and
not a student. I told them that was thanks to Nurse Liburd, who was my
preceptor and mentor. During my ten
weeks at The Brooklyn Hospital Center, I met people I would not have met but
for this scholarship.

I am so grateful for this internship and so were my
patients.

JFEW provides tuition assistance and a summer internship stipend for
female participants in associate degree programs at City Tech in nursing, dental hygiene and
radiologic technology; as well as special programming to enhance professional
development.